On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:54:39PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: >On Sun, May 18, 2003, Tassilo Erlewein wrote: ... >Linux Distros do it this way, yes. A clean system where you just have >a single version of Berkeley-DB for all packages usually do not want >those libfoo-VERSION.a stuff. In OpenPKG we went the hard way and fixed >many packages so they work with the latest Berkeley-DB 4.1 while the >Linux distros just go the lazy way and install multiple versions of >Berkeley-DB to avoid having to fix all their packages. We do not really >want this.
Worse, some Linux distros actually have the berkeley libraries buried in their glibc packaging so changing them can break the entire system. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 http://www.celestial.com/ The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste? -- Dave Barry, "On Presidential Politics" ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
